different between energy vs muscle

English

Etymology

From Middle French énergie, from Late Latin energia, from Ancient Greek ???????? (enérgeia, “activity”), from ??????? (energós, “active”), from ?? (en, “in”) + ????? (érgon, “work”). The sense in physics was coined by Thomas Young in 1802 in his lectures on Natural Philosophy.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??n?d??i/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??n?d??i/

Noun

energy (countable and uncountable, plural energies)

1. The impetus behind all motion and all activity.
2. The capacity to do work.
3. (physics) A quantity that denotes the ability to do work and is measured in a unit dimensioned in mass × distance²/time² (ML²/T²) or the equivalent.

   Units:

   SI: joule (J), kilowatt-hour (kW·h)

   CGS: erg (erg)

   Customary: foot-pound-force, calorie, kilocalorie (i.e. dietary calories), BTU, liter-atmosphere, ton of TNT

4. An intangible, modifiable force (often characterized as either 'positive' or 'negative') believed in some New Age religions to emanate from a person, place or thing and which is (or can be) preserved and transferred in human interactions; shared mood or group habit; a vibe, a feeling, an impression. (Compare aura.)
   • 2004, Phylameana L. Desy, The Everything Reiki Book, Body, Mind & Spirit, p.130

     Reiki, much like prayer, is a personal exercise that can easily convert negative energy into positive energy.

   • 2009, Christopher Johns, Becoming a Reflective Practitioner, John Wiley & Sons, p.15

     Negative feelings can be worked through and their energy converted into positive energy […]. In crisis, normal patterns of self-organization fail, resulting in anxiety (negative energy). Being open systems, people can exchange this energy with the environment and create positive energy for taking action based on a reorganisation of self as necessary to resolve the crisis and emerge at a higher level of consciousness; that is, until the next crisis.

   • 2011, Anne Jones, Healing Negative Energies, Hachette, p.118

     If you have been badly affected by negative energy a salt bath is wonderful for clearing and cleansing yourself […]. Salt attracts negative energy and will draw it away from you.

5. (Eastern Orthodoxy, theology, often in the plural) The external actions and influences resulting from an entity’s internal nature (ousia) and by which it is made manifest, as opposed to that internal nature itself; the aspect of an entity that can affect the wider world and be apprehended by other beings.
   • 2003, Carl S. Tyneh, Orthodox Christianity: Overview and Bibliography, page 21:

     The three Persons of the Holy Trinity have the same opinion, make the same decision, and put forth the same energy and action.

   • 2017, Stoyan Tanev, Energy in Orthodox Theology and Physics: From Controversy to Encounter, quoting and translating the conclusions of the Fifth Council of Constantinople (1351), page 2:

     We hold, further, that there are two energies in our Lord Jesus Christ. For He possesses on the one hand, as God and being of like essence with the Father, the divine energy, and, likewise, since He became man and of like essence to us, the energy proper to human nature. […] Energy is the efficient and essential activity of nature; the capacity for energy is the nature from which proceeds energy; the product of energy is that which is effected by energy; and the agent of energy is the person or subsistence which uses the energy.

   • 2019, Paul Ladouceur, Modern Orthodox Theology: Behold, I Make All Things New, page 368–369:

     The doctrine of the divine energies states that the divine essence, God-in-himself, is unknowable to any creature, whereas God makes himself known in creation by his divine energies, which are inseparable from the divine essence yet distinct from it. Humans know and experience God through his energies. […] Energies are indeed God, but God is more than his energies.

6. (role-playing games, video games, board games) A measure of how many actions a player or unit can take; in the fantasy genre often called magic points or mana.

   Synonym: action points

Synonyms

• (capacity to do work): pep, vigor, vim, vitality

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Cebuano: enerdyi

Translations

References

• energy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Further reading

• energy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• energy in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Greeny, greeny, greyen, gyrene

English

Etymology

From Middle English muscle, muscule, muskylle, and in part from Middle French muscle, from Latin m?sculus (“a muscle”, literally “little mouse”) because of the mouselike appearance of some muscles, from m?s (“mouse”). Doublet of mussel. More at mouse.

Pronunciation

• enPR: m??s?l, IPA^(key): /?m?.s?l/, IPA^(key): /?m?.sl?/
• Rhymes: -?s?l
• Homophone: mussel

Noun

muscle (countable and uncountable, plural muscles)

1. (uncountable) A contractile form of tissue which animals use to effect movement.

   Muscle consists largely of actin and myosin filaments.

   Synonym: thew

2. (countable) An organ composed of muscle tissue.

   • His brow and hair and the palms of his hands were wet, and there was a kind of nervous contraction of his muscles. They seemed to ripple and string tense.

   • You, Boxer, the very day that those great muscles of yours lose their power, Jones will sell you to the knacker […]

3. (uncountable, usually in the plural) A well-developed physique, in which the muscles are enlarged from exercise.
   • 2008, Lou Schuler, "Foreward", in Nate Green, Built for Show, page xii

     The fact that I was middle-aged, bald, married, and raising girls instead of chasing them didn't really bother me. Muscles are cool at any age.

4. (uncountable, figuratively) Strength, force.
   • 2010, Adam Quinn, US Foreign Policy in Context, page 81

     The lesson to be drawn from the events of 1914, to Roosevelt's mind, was that civilization needed muscle to defend it, not just solemn words.

   • 2013, John D. MacDonald, The Long Lavender Look, page 15

     It was going to take muscle to pluck Miss Agnes out of the canal.

5. (uncountable, figuratively) Hired strongmen or bodyguards.
   • 1985 — Lance Parkin, The Infinity Doctors, p 34

     It was easy enough to dodge him, let him crash into the floorboards. Peltroc knew that his priority was the leader, not the hired muscle.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• myology
• myotomy

Verb

muscle (third-person singular simple present muscles, present participle muscling, simple past and past participle muscled)

1. To use force to make progress, especially physical force.

   He muscled his way through the crowd.

   • 1988, Steve Holman, "Christian Conquers Columbus", Ironman 47 (6): 28-34.

     Hensel and Wilson hit a series of leg shots simultaneously as Christian muscles between them with Quinn right on his heels.

Derived terms

• outmuscle

Translations

Related terms

• mouse

Anagrams

• clumse

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin musculus, doublet of múscul (“muscle”) and musclo (“mussel”).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?mus.kl?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?mus.kle/

Noun

muscle m (plural muscles)

1. shoulder

   Synonym: espatlla

Further reading

• “muscle” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “muscle” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “muscle” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “muscle” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

From Middle French muscle, a borrowing from Latin m?sculus (“a muscle”, literally “little mouse”). See also the inherited doublet moule (“mussel, clam”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /myskl/

Noun

muscle m (plural muscles)

1. muscle (contractile tissue, strength)

Verb

muscle

1. first-person singular present indicative of muscler
2. third-person singular present indicative of muscler
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of muscler
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of muscler
5. second-person singular imperative of muscler

Further reading

• “muscle” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin musculus.

Noun

muscle m (plural muscles)

1. (anatomy) muscle

Descendants

• French: muscle

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin m?sculus (“a muscle”, literally “little mouse”), from Ancient Greek ??? (mûs, “mouse, muscle, mussel”).

Noun

muscle m (plural muscles)

1. (anatomy) muscle

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin m?sculus.

Noun

muscle m (plural muscles)

1. muscle
2. mussel

Further reading

• Joan de Cantalausa (2006) Diccionari general occitan a partir dels parlars lengadocians, 2 edition, ?ISBN, page 667.